JUPITER, Fla. -- It wasn't difficult to see the force pushing Matt Carpenter around the infield, the Cardinals' ostensible first baseman starting instead at third, then zigzagging over to second. It was the same force sending him scampering around the bases: Jose Martinez's bat.

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